Costumes for Comic Con 2011

Well, today Comic Con has been over for exactly a week and I’m already planning for next year.

The fourth Doctor, while not as popular as Link, was more popular than I expected so it will be coming back next year. Now I just need to find a guy’s suit for my Tenth costume and we’ll be set to go.

Link will defiantly be coming back next year. I was very surprised with just how popular Link was, I love surprises :-P. Now, to see if my sheik costume will fit a guy. I made it for me but I bet it will transfer just fine.

Now to the new costumes.

I bought these and I simply must make a costume for them.

 So far ideas have been

Batgirl

Or Female Zorro

(Of course My costumes will not be exactly like the images above lol)

Anyone have any other ideas?

 

Now! On to the big new costume. The faun.

No, not this one

Still going to be Narnianish though I hope

I’m starting out with these shoes

2″ platform, 6″ total added height. Yeah, I’m going to be 6’6″ in this costume 😛 At least I decided against these

Add hooves over the toe

I’ll have some “feathering” Around the foot similar to some of the larger draft horses and I’m considering some “shoes similar to this

I’m using this fur fabric

As you can see the strips are wide enough that I’ll have the dark part on top and the light underneath

 

I’ll have these ears and horns

 

As for clothes I bought a lacy/leafy looking shirt and then over that I’m making a cute short leather vest from a leather jacket. I’ll also be making arm bracers from that jacket. This is the green shirt with the very roughest of cuts for the vest so far.

 

I’m going to also have organic looking  jewelry, leather arm bands, and I’ll be wearing my belt and bags from my Link costume so I have a place to carry things.

I’m also making a “skirt”. It’s going to be two pieces of fabric attached to a light belt. I’m making this from this scarf.

 

And I’ll be carrying a pan flute

 

So, super excited about this costume! 😀

Self feature story

Three years ago Sarah Elswick would never have seen herself among the ranks of the Comic convention costume nerds. If you had asked her what she thought of them she would have spouted something about Star Trek fanatics with no life except their bridge replica basement, dressing up as Klingons, and learning Klingonese. However, this answer in its self would have been an early warning sign of what was to come, for it was the Star Trek phenomenon that finally pulled her over the edge as it were.

Sarah had grown up aware of Star Trek. Ask her who Kirk, Piccard, or Janeway was and she could have told you. However, the show stood out no more for her then Bonanza or Beverly Hillbillies. Then a friend gave her a set of Star Trek e-books.  Starting out at the beginning of the Original Series she became hooked. She read the books, watched the shows, argued the difference between a robot and an android, and finally, she broke down and made Uniform.

That uniform is what really started it all. Sarah loved making costumes. She had made them since the first time she was allowed on her mother’s sewing machine. But there was something different about this costume. This was “real”. Other people would know what it was; other people would talk to her about it. Sure enough when she wore it Star Trek fans came out of the woodwork. They loved it. They wished they could have one. They loved seeing a “real” Trek character standing in front of them. Sarah was hooked. Sarah was a cosplayer.

Cosplayer is a term used for people who dress up as specific characters, whether it be their own or another’s creation, who are not on stage or in a movie. Generally, these people wear their costume to conventions were they gather in groups, take pictures, sign autographs, and really have no specific goal in mind. Sarah joined this group hesitantly, but once she crossed the line there was no going back.

Over the course of the next year or so Sarah’s interest in Star Trek faded but not her cosplay. Wanting to move on to something more challenging she simply shifted her focus from Star Trek to her new interest, the video game “Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess”. The main character, Link, had a relatively simple mainly consisting of a green tunic. Feeling this to be a good place to start she embarked on the challenge of trying to bring an image on the screen to reality.

But what started as a simple tunic costume evolved into a detailed female version of the character. From fitted tunic to chainmail she could not stop, not until it was perfect.  Even when she finished it she wanted to do more, so she moved on. She just finished a Doctor Who costume (Doctor Who being British SciFi Television show) and she says she’s working on two other character from the “Legend of Zelda” games, Sheik and Zelda.

“It get’s addicting I think. Seeing the look on people faces when they see their favorite characters come to life. Especially the little kids because I’m so real for them” Sarah said.

When asked if she had any more costumes she wanted to do she answered “I don’t think I’ll ever run out of ideas. At the moment I’m thinking another Doctor Who costume but I’m always changing my mind.”